Psychological test usage in southeastern outpatient mental health facilities in 1975.

Professional psychology internships.

“…The ranking of the clusters of assessment/testing skills and psychodiagnosis as the most important deficiencies of interns seems to support the need to require courses in these areas as part of the doctoral programs for those students anticipating employment in a community agency. The emphasis on projectives was expected, as this has been found in other surveys (Piotrowski & Keller, 1978;Wade & Baker, 1977). That the directors saw the lack of good assessment skills in general as a serious deficit could have been predicted because of the lower importance currently given to traditional assessment devices in academia (Thelan, Varble, & Johnson, 1968) and the continued debate over their theoretical and practical value (Hogan, DeSoto, & Solano, 1977;Mischel, 1977).…”

What Have Surveys Taught Us About the Teaching and Practice of Psychological Assessment?

“…In comparison to these five settings, surveys have also shown test usage in university counseling centers to be most unique. While using some of the expected assessment methods (e.g., MMPI and WAIS-R), psychologists in counseling cbnters frequently make use of other objective personality (EPPS) and vocational (SCII and KOIS) tests, but generally use projective techniques less by comparison (see Brown & McGuite, 1976;Winkle et al, 1968;Keller & Picltrowski, 19'~9;Lubin et al, 1985Lubin et al, , 1986aPiotrowski & Keller, 1978Sell & Torres-Henry, 1979;Sundberg, 1961;Sweeney et al, 1987;Watkins &Campbell, 1989b;?Vatkins et al, 1988).…”

“…Though never among the highest ranked tests overall (except in counseling centers), the SCII and Kuder Occupational Interest Survey (KOIS) have been the only vocational tests mentioned with any frequency. Furthermore, though typically not among the highest ranked assessment methods, other intellectual, objective personality, and projective tools often mentioned across surveys are as follows: Stanford-Binet (intellectual); 16PF, CPI, and Edwards Personal Preference Schedule (EPPS; objective personality); and Children's Apperception Test (projective; see Brown & McGuire, 1976;Keller & Piotrowski, 1989;Lubin, Larsen, & Matarazzo, 1984;Lubin, Larsen, Matarazzo, & Seever, 1985, 1986aLubin, Wallis, & Paine, 1971;Piotrowski & Keller, 1978Piotrowski & Lubin, 1990;Piotrowski et al, 1985;Sell & Torres-Henry, 1979;Sundberg, 1961;Sweeney, Clarkin, & Fitzgibbon, 1987;Watkins & Campbell, 1987, 198913;Watkins et al, 1988).…”

Psychodiagnostic testing in APA-approved clinical psychology programs.

“…All of this speaks of a renewed vitality, (p. 1156) Recently, a replication of Lubin et al's (1971) survey of testing practices in a variety of agencies and institutions was conducted (Lubin, Larsen, & Matarazzo, 1984). The results of this survey indicated that both objective and projective tests are frequently used and that clinicians currently recommend tests that they reported using in the past (Lubin et al, 1971;Piotrowski & Keller, 1978;Sundberg, 1961).…”

“…The extent of psychological lest usage in applied clinical settings has been extensively studied in both national (Brown & McGuire, 1976;Lubin, Wallis, & Paine, 1971;Sundberg, 1961) and regional (Piotrowski & Keller, 1978) surveys. The data yielded strong support for the usefulness of intelligence, objective personality measures, and projective techniques.…”